America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

by Megan Pugh

Book Overview

An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American.

Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300201311
• ISBN13: 9780300201314
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"